{"id":4479,"date":"2011-10-24T14:51:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T14:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=4479"},"modified":"2012-11-30T14:50:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T19:50:21","slug":"%c2%a1patria-o-libertad-antuan%e2%80%98left-or-right%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=4479","title":{"rendered":"\u00a1Patria o Libertad! ANTUAN:\u2018Left or Right\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/antuan1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2716\" title=\"antuan1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/antuan1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif; color: #000000;\">ANTUAN, \u2018Left or Right\u2019, 2010 Video, 5:00. Courtesy the artist<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif; color: #000000;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif; color: #000000;\">September 9 \u2013 October 30, 2011<br \/>\nMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif; color: #000000;\">Eight red punching bags are hanging from metal hooks, each wearing the portrait of a politician. The background suggests a poor neighbourhood where working class people live. The artist ANTUAN is from Cuba where most buildings are badly maintained. So it could be anywhere, in Havana, in any town or in the countryside. The colours of the bags refer to communism, the red flag of the Soviet Union, and the countries it dominated, Cuba being the last one standing.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif; color: #000000;\">The politicians painted on the bags come from the left and the right (as the title of the video hints) representing the people&#8217;s options. A man comes into this arena and starts to punch the faces on the bags. He punches and punches them harder and harder until sweat is running down his face and his knuckles become red.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif; color: #000000;\">Coming from a communist country I know this feeling of anger from experience. I tried the punching too. But still my question remains: after all this fighting, who is getting hurt?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif; color: #000000;\">Emese Krun\u00e1k-Hajagos<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Liberation Serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Emese Krun\u00e1k-Hajagos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>September 9 \u2013 October 30, 2011<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\ufeffMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A man comes into this arena and starts to punch the faces on the bags. He punches and punches them harder and harder until sweat is running down his face and his knuckles become red.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=4479\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs","category-emese-krunak-hajagos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4479"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16821,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479\/revisions\/16821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}